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I guess what bugs me about QT is never have I not been able to get into a creek I wanted to! Still Pond Creek, done it many times, sure I bumped bottom here and there but I got in without to much pain.

Ok, you want pointers (I don't blame ya!): first of all, it was made easy for me nbecause of my chartplotter. I could stay between the narrow lines of the channel. plus, I'ld been there before so I followed my track in. That said; some important considerations are:- stay away from the marks. A common error is to get close to them and get into trouble. Give them a berth of about 10 feet. - When you get into the creek, there is a sandy beach on port as you enter. it comes to a point that you must give WIDE berth. Stay in the middle between that sandy point and the southern shore. the lagoon holds at least 6 feet of water and is plenty large for many boats. My ONE question is: "has the water quality improved?" If so, it's a very pleasant place to be.

You didn't stay very long..like in and out. Saw you around 10am on Sat. as we sailed up to the red #14 QT entrance bouy. Spent about an hour and half taking depth soundings from the dingy after anchoring..seems the last green can may have moved abit to the left... Watched several power boated run aground when they followed to closely to the green cans. Also watched (2) power boaters cut between the "Danger Shoal" sign and the first green can..and than take it way wide to the right of the second green can..now that was interesting!

Only one other sailboat inside along with (3) rafted up groups of power boats... All-in-all a very nice night with a full moon and music from a wedding on shore.

Clay AA3JY
s/v 'Tango'
Cabo Rico 34 (draft 4'10")

06-08-2009 07:06 AM

Gladrags1

Ok, you want pointers (I don't blame ya!): first of all, it was made easy for me nbecause of my chartplotter. I could stay between the narrow lines of the channel. plus, I'ld been there before so I followed my track in. That said; some important considerations are:- stay away from the marks. A common error is to get close to them and get into trouble. Give them a berth of about 10 feet. - When you get into the creek, there is a sandy beach on port as you enter. it comes to a point that you must give WIDE berth. Stay in the middle between that sandy point and the southern shore. the lagoon holds at least 6 feet of water and is plenty large for many boats. My ONE question is: "has the water quality improved?" If so, it's a very pleasant place to be.

I have successfully entered and exited Queenstown Creek with my 5'6" draft withOUT running aground. The last time I did this was 2 summers ago. The anchorage is nice and empty. There is a nice beach. Unfortunately, the water quality was terrible then and we have not returned. The dogs that swam in the water got sick. The cause of the problem was it trapped the sewage overflow problem on the Corsica River upstream. Don't know if they got that fixed yet - it was big news then!

Some pointers would be nice

06-05-2009 02:31 PM

aa3jy

Will be in Queenstown this (Full Moon) weekend..will be listening to Channel 16(156.80Mhz) if anyone is interested in enjoying the area...